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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: Contribs under X11R3
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Date: 4 Apr 89 10:58:20 GMT
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    I guess I should be very sorry that X gods decided to remove
    the auto make facility for the contrib directories,

We didn't really "remove" it, we simply failed to construct it for R3.

    The core release built just dandy.  What did they do?

For the core, worked extremely hard for long hours to make it build.

    Release the contrib's without even attempting a make?

Yes.  The contrib software is "as is", we did not (and still do not) have the
resources to attempt an "integration" of contributed software.  If you don't
like the state it's in, and don't have time to spend on it yourself, pretend it
isn't there.

    Also why did they change the includes so drastically?

I don't think we did.

    No cursorfont.h,

The file exists, but there was a bug in our installation that caused it not to
get installed.  This was fixed in the first patch we released (back in
November).

    no Misc.h,

It's now called XawMisc.h.  The name change was felt to be important, to make
it clear that this was part of a non-standard interface.

    etc...

Since I don't know what "etc." consists of, it's rather difficult to comment.